GV Art is planning a new exhibition, Nature Reserves, conceived and curated by Tom Jeffreys. The exhibition looks to examine our understanding of the natural environment, and the ways in which this is influenced by different methods of constructing meaning – across literature, science and the arts – with specific reference to thinking around the archive. Of particular interest is the two-way relationship between knowledge storage and knowledge creation and the tangled effect this has on our changing conceptions of the natural world.

We would like to invite you to send us a brief proposal of ideas for work (whether existing or yet to be realised) to be included in this exhibition, addressing the themes stated above. Please send us low res images (no more than 3MB) and no more than a side of A4. Links and PDFs are accepted, and we will call you if we need any more information. Any form of artwork is viable, from drawings to performances, sculptures and films, we would love to hear your responses and ideas (please do bear in mind we thus far have no budget, so any costly media or technology cannot be provided by GV Art.)

GV Art is planning a new exhibition, Nature Reserves, conceived and curated by Tom Jeffreys. The exhibition looks to examine our understanding of the natural environment, and the ways in which this is influenced by different methods of constructing meaning – across literature, science and the arts – with specific reference to thinking around the archive. Of particular interest is the two-way relationship between knowledge storage and knowledge creation and the tangled effect this has on our changing conceptions of the natural world.

We would like to invite you to send us a brief proposal of ideas for work (whether existing or yet to be realised) to be included in this exhibition, addressing the themes stated above. Please send us low res images (no more than 3MB) and no more than a side of A4. Links and PDFs are accepted, and we will call you if we need any more information. Any form of artwork is viable, from drawings to performances, sculptures and films, we would love to hear your responses and ideas (please do bear in mind we thus far have no budget, so any costly media or technology cannot be provided by GV Art.)

GV Art is planning a new exhibition, Nature Reserves, conceived and curated by Tom Jeffreys. The exhibition looks to examine our understanding of the natural environment, and the ways in which this is influenced by different methods of constructing meaning – across literature, science and the arts – with specific reference to thinking around the archive. Of particular interest is the two-way relationship between knowledge storage and knowledge creation and the tangled effect this has on our changing conceptions of the natural world.

We would like to invite you to send us a brief proposal of ideas for work (whether existing or yet to be realised) to be included in this exhibition, addressing the themes stated above. Please send us low res images (no more than 3MB) and no more than a side of A4. Links and PDFs are accepted, and we will call you if we need any more information. Any form of artwork is viable, from drawings to performances, sculptures and films, we would love to hear your responses and ideas (please do bear in mind we thus far have no budget, so any costly media or technology cannot be provided by GV Art.)

Wednesday 5 June, 8:30pm - 9:30pm, £15 Peter Higgs in Conversation with Dara O’Briain: the world renowned physicist talks to our Guest Director about his life and work – where the inspiration came from and how he feels about the recent discovery of a Higgs-like-boson in CERN.

Thursday 6 June, 2:00pm - 3:00pm, £15 James Watson: In the year that marks the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA, James Watson, the man responsible for that momentous discovery with Francis Crick, joins Matt Ridley to discuss his life and latest work.

Friday 7 June, 8.30pm-10.00pm, £12: The Science of Tea: Put your feet up and the get the kettle on with Mark Miodownik as he looks into the science of Earl Grey and Lapsang Souchong (cuppa included)

Friday 7 June, 8:30pm - 9:30pm, £10 Pride, Prejudice and the Doctor: Pride and Prejudice is one of the best-loved novels of all time and celebrates its 200th anniversary this year. But how much were Jane Austen’s plots and characters influenced and shaped by the views – and prejudices – of the medical men and theories of her day? Vivienne Parry is joined by Austen expert Janet Todd and medical historian Michael Worboys to discuss how scientific thinking in the Regency period influenced attitudes towards, amongst other things, health, sex, childbirth and women.

Saturday 8 June, 10.00am – 11.00am, £6Talon-Spotting: Come face-to-face with some of nature’s most impressive winged predators – eagles, hawks and owls – and feel the draught of their wings as they pass over your head. Join Jemima Parry-Jones from the International Centre for Birds of Prey and her feathered friends to discover how birds of prey hunt, mate and survive. Just make sure you duck…

Saturday 8 June, 12.00pm – 1.00pm, £6Daredevil Labs: Everest: Fresh from the highest lab in the world, BBC presenter Greg Foot and mountaineer Nick Insley join us to talk about their recent scientific adventure to Mount Everest. There, they and their bodies to the limits to uncover cutting-edge medical treatments to save lives back home. With a host of demos including an explosive display of why you need oxygen, a live look at red blood cells and a brilliant full-audience experiment to uncover your hidden genetics, this is a show you don’t want to miss.

Saturday 8 June, 4:15pm - 5:45pm, £10 Anatomy Scan: Live: In an anatomy lesson with a big difference, doctor Kevin Fong and consultant radiologist Iain Lyburn send a volunteer off for a full body MRI scan courtesy of Cobalt Imaging Centre, Cheltenham. With a live feed from the scanner explore what your insides look like, why things are where they are, and how everything is joined together.

Saturday 8 June, 8:45pm - 9:45pm, £15 Stand Up Maths 2013: The UK’s foremost and only Stand-up Mathematician is back in Cheltenham for what is statistically likely to be another sell-out show. From Rubik’s Cubes to binary numbers, Matt Parker covers his current favourite bits of maths in a comedy show accessible to everyone. Featuring all-new material, come and watch him not divide by zero, live on stage!

Sunday 9 June, 8:15pm - 9:15pm, £10 The Importance of Being Interested: Comedian Robin Ince explains the joy of realising that being self-conscious in a big universe is a darn good thing. Find out why we have eyebrows, why bald dogs have bad teeth and how heavy metal music makes pigs deaf. This is a loving look into the minds of two giants of human imagination – Charles Darwin and Richard Feynman – stopping off on the way to look at some of the more bizarre views of early science.

Throughout the Festival visitors will be able to visit The Discover Zone. Open every day of the Festival, this gives kids the perfect opportunity to get hands-on with interactive technology and experiments. This year’s exhibitions will give Festival goers the chance to explore the human body, test the strength of chocolate, see how water can be used to create fire and see what they can light up using pedal power.

"Refractive Distance" will take place in Art Exchange (the gallery of the University of Essex in Colchester) from the 23rd of May to the 22nd of June 2013.

Refractive Distance presents international contemporary artists who deliberately destabilize and stretch the distance required in the experience of art, by affecting space and the everyday: everything familiar becomes poetic.

The exhibits include audiovisual projections, mixed media installations, photographic prints on hard materials and a sound art piece, created during the last decade.

A weekly series of educational events including narrated tours, film screenings and interdisciplinary discussions will take place at Art Exchange, whilst online the Refractive Distance blog will regularly post interviews, critiques and articles on art and artists in similar fields.

IMPORTANT - Skills Matter are managing registrations for this event so please sign up on the Skills Matter page here - http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/simplifying-asynchronous-code-with-scala-async

Ever wished the compiler could make asynchronous programming easier? Enter Scala Async. Do asynchronous I/O like “normal” blocking I/O, program with Futures and Promises even more naturally! Scala Async makes it possible to “suspend” at arbitrary points in a block of regular Scala code, and to “resume” from that point later--all without blocking. This not only makes it possible to make concurrent code look sequential, it makes it possible to actually use even the most unfamiliar asynchronous libraries in a familiar blocking style. What’s more, not only does it come out-of-the-box seamlessly integrated with the Futures and Promises API of Scala 2.10, but you can also easily use it with any other event-driven Scala or Java library of your choice.

An allegory of fear and confinement.Amsatten draws on stories of hostage situations taken from news reports of the past 30 years presenting the audience a piece that is both beautiful and disturbing. Amsatten contrasts the performer’s inner landscape with the imposition of a restricted physical space accompanied by a stark and geometric lighting design by Guy Hoare.

Robert Clark is a Work Place artist. In 2003, he was awarded the Simone Michelle Choreography Prize from Laban and a Dance UK Choreographic Observation to work with Siobhan Davis in 2004. Robert has been Associate Artist with Dance4 since 2004.

Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Greenwich Dance, Escalator, The Place, Dance Digital, Trestle and Dance4.

In Cycles explores the Hindu philosophy of re-incarnation and our role within the cycle of nature. We are bound by fate and inevitability from the moment we are born but if we are lucky, the end is not the end.

James Wilton began his choreographic career whilst studyingat LCDS. He was then commisioned to develop work for Scottish Dance Theatre. In 2010 James created his first professional work The Shortest Day which won Sadler's Wells' Global Dance Contest and the Audience Award for Best Choreography at the 16 Masdanza Choreography Competition in the Canary Islands.

Supported by the BBC Performing Arts Fund, Swindon Dance, South East Dance and Kent Council.

Taking inspiration from the troubled relationships portrayed in Murakami's best selling novel, Norwegian Wood, There We Have Been presents a daringly intimate glimpse into a secluded world of fragile dependency. This touching duet sees the two performers intensely folding, wrapping and balancing, with the female character barely ever touching the floor.

John Lendis has always painted his relationship with the landscape and his move back to the countryside has reunited him with the stories, imaginations and visions of Shakespeare and the Pre-Raphaelites.

“For an artist, coming to live in the Cotswolds is like ‘coming home’. It is the source of so much of what I know in the history of art and literature. It is like a concentrated landscape that is the site of the Romantic and Modern Spirit.”

In his new solo exhibition, Brook, Lendis has taken the much-painted image of Ophelia as his start point. “Ophelia is incredibly elusive, but she also possesses a great presence in the imagination of Hamlet, and the many artists, writers and audiences who have dreamt of her since. Ophelia was, and is, not a woman in the real sense, but a muse.”

Sometimes the background landscapes in these paintings are real (such as in the painting, Kelmscott, which features William Morris’s house of the same name), sometimes they are imaginary. Either way, they function as a symbol for a truth about the way that we live in relation to the historical and physical landscape around us, as Lendis explains: “We create the image of the real world around us as though it were a mirror of an ‘interior world’ that we carry, imagine and remember within.”

John Lendis has held more than 40 solo exhibitions in 4 countries and has paintings in public and private collections in all. Prices range from £1,500 - £5,000

Udi Dahan's 5-day course Advanced Distributed Systems Design with SOA will help you to take the pain out of designing large-scale distributed systems. New technologies make it easier to comply with today’s communications and security standards, but they won't magically provide you with a robust and scalable system. Join Udi for a course packed with the wisdom of companies like SUN, Amazon and EBay.

Tried-and-true theories and fallacies will be shown, helping you to avoid costly mistakes. Communications patterns like publish/subscribe and correlated one-way request/response will be demonstrated, in conjunction with advanced object-oriented state management practices for long-running workflows. If you enjoy deep architectural discussion, if you are in charge of building a large-scale distributed system, and if you want to know more about how the big guys run their systems, sign up now for Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design with SOA workshop!

LEARN HOW TO:

-Avoid common pitfalls in distributed systems-Use loosely coupled messaging communication-Identify and allocated business logic to services-Decompose services into layers, tiers, assemblies, and processes-Design for service management and monitoring in production environments

Udi Dahan is an internationally renowned expert on software architecture and design. Recognized with the coveted “Most Valuable Professional” award by Microsoft Corporation for solutions architecture and connected systems 4 years in a row, Mr. Dahan is also on the advisory board of Microsoft’s next generation technology platforms: WCF/WF/OSLO, the Software Factories Initiative, and the Composite Application Library & Guidance.

Udi Dahan is one of 33 experts in Europe recognized by the International .NET Association (INETA), an author and trainer for the International Association of Software Architects on Reliability, Availability, and Scalability, and an SOA, Web Services, and XML Guru recommended by Dr. Dobb’s – the world’s largest software magazine. When not consulting, training, and speaking, Udi leads NServiceBus – the most popular opensource .NET Enterprise Service Bus.

From 27 March, Hampton Court’s Baroque Palace will be transformed into a special exhibition space, full of intrigue, drama and surprise, with six magnificent, royal Beds at its heart. In addition to the rarely seen private furnishings, the exhibition takes a contemporary twist on the distinctive Baroque style of the palace. Through pioneering interpretation, visitors will be plunged into an immersive, interactive world of the Stuart Court.

As part of the contemporary commissions, curated by Universal Design Studio, Studio Roso present ‘Mirror Chandelier’, an intricate, reflective lighting piece, which creates a dazzling effect as the natural light bounces off the ceiling, floor and walls. The chandelier forms part of Studio Roso’s ongoing ‘disc series’ of large-scale, mirrored feature pieces.

Objectives: Train attendees in all relevant aspects of Digital Marketing & PR, Social & Mobile Marketing Strategy & New Platforms for immediate use in your daily business, as well as help develop action plans for next steps.

Who Attends?: Relevant for all marketing, comms, research, HR and commercial execs who have involvement in these areas – whether in depth delivery or strategic overview. The sessions cover the essentials up to the latest must know developments but in a language that everyone can understand and find useful – whether beginner or expert. We usually have groups with a variety of experience levels which works well as it reflects the real working world. All Sections Include … Latest Research - New Opportunities - Case Study Examples - Strategy & Measurement - Top Tools - Content Management - Community Building - Influencer Outreach - Data & CRM - ROI & Project Plans - Q&A

Section 3: Creating Content Strategies That Are Successful, Sustainable & Profitable? - Building A Social Website With Blogs & Forums: New Ways To Adapt & Adopt These “Older” Tools For Business Use? - Adapting For Smartphones, Tablets & Apps - How To Ensure Your Business Has A Scalable Plan Not Just An App? Rich Content, Online Video & Youtube: We Know We Need It – So How To Develop & Deliver A Rich Content Plan Thats Focused, Relevant & Profitable! Adapted, Curated, Created & User Generated Content – Risks & Opportunities?

Section 4: How To Use To Building Relationships, Reputations & Brands … To Extract Business Value? - Expanding The Power Of LinkedIn - Crash Your Recruitment Costs, Find Top Talent, Build A Lead Generating Hub, Integrate Into Your Digital Mix, Tap Into Rich Social CRM Data – Do You Know How? How Useful Are LinkedIn’s Latest Acquisitions Slideshare & Connected? What Is Facebook Best For? A Hard Look At What’s Really Working For Businesses There? How Can We Benefit From Facebook’s Billion Dollar Acquisition Instagram?Section 5: Scaling Up Success & Driving Business Conversion? - Bookmarking : Digg May Be In Long Term Decline But The Newer Kids On The Block Have Huge Staying Power – Add That To Your Posts! - Pinterest: What’s All The Fuss About? We Look At Where It’s Really Driving Business? Pay Per Click Ads: Yes They Do Work On Social If Integrated – We Look At How? - Email Marketing: Older Tools Need Rethinking?

Susan Aldworth is an internationally renowned artist represented by GV Art gallery, London. A display of her works entitled The Portrait Anatomised will be shown at the National Portrait Gallery, London in room 38a from March – September 2013. The Portrait Anatomised is an installation of three life-sized portraits of individuals living successfully with epilepsy. Epilepsy is caused by disrupted electrical charges in the brain, and while it affects 1 in 100 people in Britain, there are many misconceptions about the condition. Aldworth’s unique working methods combine traditional print processes with state-of-the-art images such as medical brain scans, EEG data and contemporary digital photography. Each portrait is two metres high and made up of nine separate prints. The project has been funded by Guy's and St Thomas' Charity and is supported by the Epilepsy Society.

Udi Dahan's 5-day course Advanced Distributed Systems Design with SOA will help you to take the pain out of designing large-scale distributed systems. New technologies make it easier to comply with today’s communications and security standards, but they won't magically provide you with a robust and scalable system. Join Udi for a course packed with the wisdom of companies like SUN, Amazon and EBay.

If you enjoy deep architectural discussion, if you are in charge of building a large-scale distributed system, and if you want to know more about how the big guys run their systems, sign up now for Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design with SOA workshop!

Read more & book your place here: http://bit.ly/DistrDesign

Or, if you like to see Udi in action first, have a look at this video: http://bit.ly/XOziI0

Target Audience for PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner Certification Training are Project management professionals from various software companies, financial institutions, insurance companies, telecom and electronic manufacturers and research institutes in United Kingdom and from across.

Avren’s Small Cells World Summit 2013, in exclusive partnership with the Small Cell Forum, is the largest small cells event in the telecoms industry. With the largest gathering of small cell international delegates in attendance at the 2012 summit and 30 exhibitors, SCWS2013 is poised to grow even further, with 40+ exhibitors and 550 delegates.

Large OEMs and component manufacturers find Avren Events’ Small Cells World Series the ultimate showcase for their new products and network solutions. Our boutique, customer-focused approach to the conference program and exhibition floor is second to none in facilitating meetings and new connections. We believe that having a large, well-qualified delegate list is the key to success for our sponsors, and we provide you with meeting opportunities with the most influential executives in the industry.

Niche suppliers within the small cells ecosystem are put side by side to the biggest names in the industry in the show floor, creating brand recognition, and establishing their name in the industry. From the largest suppliers and operators, to the new players in the market and regional carriers, the entire industry will be under one roof.

In 2012, Vodafone, Orange and Telefonica O2 chose our stage to make major announcements that have shaped the small cell industry for the coming year. There are plenty of exciting news, deployment announcements and technology at display, so make sure you mark your calendar to be in London on June 4th – 6th.

Exploratory Clinical Development World has established itself as the most influential event for pharma & biotech representatives working within exploratory development & early phase clinical trials.

Early clinical development is facing big challenges – how can we reduce drug attrition and get those pipelines full once more? Get the answers at Exploratory Clinical Development World Europe, now in its 7th year, it has established itself as the largest European event for early development clinical trial leaders.

Exploratory Clinical Development World Europe is recognised as the premier conference to learn how to avoid the expense of carrying ineffective novel agents into full scale clinical development by developing the right methods to assess safety & efficacy.

The attic workshop of the first hero of the British Industrial Revolution, the engineer James Watt, will be opened up to visitors as part of a new permanent Science Museum exhibition, James Watt and our world: opening on 23 March 2011. Accompanied by a new gallery of previously unseen objects and innovative multimedia, the exhibition will present a vivid portrait of the working life, ingenuity and character of the first mechanical engineer to be propelled to international fame and spoken of in the same breath as national heroes like Isaac Newton and William Shakespeare.

When Watt died in 1819, his workshop at his home near Birmingham, was locked and its contents left undisturbed as an ‘industrial shrine’. Then, in 1924, the complete workshop, including its door, window, skylight, floorboards and 6,500 objects used or created by Watt, were carefully removed and transported to the Science Museum. Although the workshop has previously been displayed at the Museum, visitors have never been invited inside until now. The vast majority of its contents, once hidden within drawers, on shelves and under piles of tools and papers are now revealed. The new display sets Watt’s life and work alongside his iconic early steam engines which line the Museum’s Energy Hall.

James Watt was seen by contemporaries as the founder of the Industrial Revolution. His improved engine meant that steam could be used everywhere, not just in coal mines, boosting output in breweries, potteries and textile mills. It drove Britain’s factories, pumped its mines and helped start a long surge in prosperity.

Watt was the first engineer to be honoured by a statue in Westminster Abbey and was even called ’the greatest benefactor of the human race’. On his death, the workshop became a place of pilgrimage for historians. His biographer J.P. Muirhead, wrote, the ‘garret and all its mysterious contents…seemed still to breathe of the spirit that once gave them life and energy’.

This exhibition puts Watt in the context of Britain’s emergence as the first industrial nation. Watt played a pivotal role in these events which opened the road to the consumer society of today... He was perhaps the first ‘scientific entrepreneur’, adept at ‘turning science into money’ and using his skills to generate wealth in a longstanding partnership with entrepreneur Matthew Boulton.

Watt’s workshop is packed with a bewildering array of objects including the world’s oldest circular saw, parts for flutes and violins he was making and even the oldest surviving pieces of sandpaper. The exhibition will also include a roller press developed by Watt to copy letters, a forerunner of the photocopier, and a device used to mint and standardise the size of coins for the first time, developed for the Royal Mint.

One of the key objects of the exhibition is Watt’s original 1765 model for the first separate condenser - in effect the greatest single improvement to the steam engine ever made. This unassuming brass cylinder, thought to be one of the most significant objects in engineering history, was only discovered at the Science Museum in the 1960’s – lying under Watt’s workbench. The object remained unrecognised until research by the Museum revealed its identity.

Ben Russell, Curator of Mechanical Engineering, at the Science Museum, said “I am delighted to see Watt’s Workshop given a prominent place again at the Science Museum. To Victorians, the workshop was a mystical retreat and we are hoping that visitors will be similarly enthralled and inspired today. It’s fascinating that we still don’t know the exact purpose of every item in the workshop and we will continue to research this. It was both a functioning workshop and a personal museum of things from his entire life which he had kept, perhaps out of sentiment, but also in case they might come in handy.”

Andrew Nahum, Principal Curator of Technology & Engineering at the Science Museum, said “The extraordinary thing about Watt’s story is that it represents the crucial moment at which industry took off and transformed our lives. In the 19th century, Watt’s improvements to the steam engine and the industry it drove was claimed as a powerful contribution to British strength and to Wellington’s defeat of Napoleon. Watt became a new kind of ‘industrial hero’. Today, Britain’s commerce no longer runs on steam and Watt is perhaps less well known so we are pleased to be celebrating his engineering genius once more.”

As a mark of their contribution, James Watt and his business partner Matthew Boulton will be portrayed on the Bank of England’s forthcoming new £50 banknotes. In 1797 Boulton manufactured all Britain’s coins for the Bank with his new steam-powered machinery.

As Bank of England Governor, Mervyn King, commented when he announced their planned inclusion on the note, “So many of the advantages society now enjoys are due to the vital role of engineering and the brilliance of people such as Boulton and Watt, whose development and refinement of steam engines gave an incredible boost to the efficiency of industry.”

The exhibition is supported by The DCMS/Wolfson Museums & Galleries Improvement Fund, with additional support from The Pilgrim Trust and the Helen and Geoffrey de Freitas Charitable Trust.